A new immigration law should be presented to Parliament by Michel Barnier’s government at the beginning of next year, assures government spokesperson Maud Bregeon this Sunday at noon. “A new immigration law will be needed to adapt a certain number of provisions” of the text adopted painfully in the fall of 2023, she argued on BFMTV, in particular “a proposal which should make it possible to facilitate the extension of the maintenance foreigners in an irregular situation who present dangerous profiles in administrative detention centers for up to 210 days” instead of 90 days, she explained.
“To do this we need a law, rather at the beginning of 2025, and we do not refrain from including other provisions that appear to us within the government and with the discussions that we will have with parliamentary groups as useful for protecting the French,” she added, assuring that “there must be no taboo when it comes to protecting the French.”
“We make the law to try to respond to people’s concerns”
At the end of September, the deputies of the Republican Right group, led by Laurent Wauquiez, tabled a bill to significantly extend the detention period of “dangerous illegal aliens”, in the context of the Philippine affair, a young student killed in Paris by a repeat rapist, a 22-year-old Moroccan who had just been released from detention. LR Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, also defends this position.
“We make the law to try to respond to people’s concerns,” Bregeon insisted several times, affirming that there was no question of “prohibiting different political groups” from expressing themselves on a subject, a reference to the National Rally which continues to position itself as arbiter of the Barnier government.